10 Reasons Bush is Worst President Ever
So George W. Bush doesn't have much time left on his term, and most of the below points aren't really impeachable offenses. But at the very least, here's 10 reasons why Bush will go down as the worst president in U.S. history:
1. After Bill Clinton got impeached for lying about getting a BJ from an intern, somehow Bush has escaped impeachment for using false information to start an unwinnable war, resulting in the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans and perhaps tens of thousands of Iraqis to date.
2. New Orleans. The great American city was decimated by Hurricane Katrina, and Bush's team was slow to react, and inept in its actions. Just think how the billions we're spending on the unnecessary Iraqi war could be used to restore New Orleans to greatness. If it doesn't make your blood boil, nothing will.
3. Bush lives in a self-imposed state of ignorance, refusing to read newspapers and instead relying on advisers and his cabinet to make him aware of important matters. All of which makes the next point so infuriating....
4. Bush's inner circle, perhaps most frequently his foreign policy team, have consistently let him and the entire country down. They convinced Bush and much of the nation that Iraq would welcome US troops with open arms and ignored the advice of true experts on the Middle East who warned of the possibility of violent resistance or even civil war. The administration continued to draw connections between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden or WMD, even after sufficient evidence was delivered to them contradicting the claims.
5. Bush and his "experts" failed to understand they were giving Al Qaeda exactly what it wanted by jumping straight into cowboy justice to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Bush fulfilled the dreams of many extremists by entering two Muslim countries as an aggressor, blindly following the script written by Osama bin Laden himself.
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6. Bush has authorized illegal government spying on American people. From wiretapping to phone record collection to postal mail intervention, the NSA has used Bush's approval to spy on U.S. citizens without a warrant. In 2006, a U.S. District Court judge called the wiretapping unconstitutional.
7. Bush's environmental record is shameful. From advocating drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the name of "national security" to pushing to expand the logging of national forests to the undermining of the Clean Water and Clean Air acts, Bush has been called the most anti-environmental US president in history by many scientists and nature advocates.
8. Bush's financial mismanagement is now legendary. Combine Bush's squandering of the budget surpluses he inherited from the Clinton administration with Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy and big business, and the ever-growing costs of Bush's unnecessary Iraq war and you have a recipe for disaster. But since that disaster won't hit us until our kids and grandkids have to clean up the mess, it's OK, right?
9. Bush's frequent, careless throwing around of the terms "evil" and "evil-doers" to describe virtually anyone who opposes the U.S. embarrasses this country and illustrates his intolerance of those who don't share his beliefs. It's been reported that his mother, Barbara Bush, turned to the reverend Billy Graham to convince her son that it was wrong to proclaim anyone who didn't accept Christ as bound for Hell. George W. Bush has since guarded his comments on religion, but his simple-minded branding of this country's enemies as evil belie his religious fanaticism.
10. Bush cannot be blamed for much of the world hating America. But instead of taking action to tear down the stereotypes our global critics have of us, Bush embodies them and solidifies them. His use of false information to win support for a war (see point 1), disregard for his own country's less fortunate (point 2), ignorance of world events (point 3), reliance on inept advisers (point 4), bullheaded playing the world's cowboy (point 5), disrespect for individual rights (point 6), aggression toward the environment (point 7), financial irresponsibility (point 8), and religious fanaticism (point 9) all add up to a portrait of Americans no reasonable world citizen could admire.
Reversing the damage Bush has caused will be no small task. It's up to us to choose a leader who is up to the challenge.
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